by Nicholas C. Zakas
ISBN: 1118026691
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whatsoever · 2014-12-22 · Original thread
I'd recommend this one http://www.amazon.com/Professional-JavaScript-Developers-Nic... And also, keep a beginner's mind :)
rudimental · 2014-12-05 · Original thread
What're your goals? It can help to direct you to the best place for what you're looking for out of JavaScript. I think it's useful to learn vanilla JavaScript well before learning libraries and frameworks.

Useful books. The first is online and free (the other two are as well, somewhere): http://eloquentjavascript.net/

http://www.amazon.com/Professional-JavaScript-Developers-Nic...

http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Patterns-Stoyan-Stefanov/dp...

Solve toy problems to solidify knowledge of methods and syntax: http://coderbyte.com/CodingArea/Challenges/

Good material- lots of video and problems. Not free but worth it: https://www.codeschool.com/ (makers of the jQuery videos below)

Bootstrap - popular front-end framework: http://getbootstrap.com/

Actually build something! A To Do List, a website, a game.

See some different frameworks do the same things: http://todomvc.com/

jQuery: http://try.jquery.com/

Here is a good free node tutorial: http://nodeschool.io/

Some tracks to learn, and get connected with non-profits to make useful things: http://www.freecodecamp.com/

Contributing to open source projects is another route.

bonsai · 2014-06-24 · Original thread
I can highly recommend books written by Nicholas Zakas.

http://www.amazon.com/Professional-JavaScript-Developers-Nic...

There is one shorter book that he wrote recently: https://leanpub.com/oopinjavascript